> > These patches make it possible to share NFS superblocks between related> > mounts, where "related" means on the same server and FSID. Inodes and> > dentries will be shared where the NFS filehandles are the same (for> > example if two NFS3 files come from the same export but from different> > mounts, such as is not uncommon with autofs on /home).> > It's not clear why these were sent.

To try and elicit some feedback.

> The first 25 patches are, as far as I can tell, already in Trond's tree.> Whether Trond has the correct versions of these is now anybody's guess...

He hasn't told me of any changes, but that doesn't mean he hasn't made any, Isuppose.

> "[PATCH 26/30] NFS: Use local caching" appears to be the first patch which> isn't in Trond's tree, but it doesn't work due to significant changes in> nfs_clear_inode().